Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

By Rebecca Popenoe

Book Overview

While in the West it is said that women can never be too thin, semi-nomadic Arabs in Niger cherish a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Feeding Desire analyses this beauty ideal in the context of Islam, conceptions of health, and notions of desire

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415280966
• ISBN13: 9780415280969
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"